Overview
- First book to cover both political liberalism and Confucianism for the purpose of exploring more promising models of democracy in East Asia and beyond
- Brings together a diversity of contemporary political theories whose interactions spark something truly original
- Shows that perfectionist approaches to political Confucianism suffer from practical and theoretical difficulties
- Demonstrates that political liberalism offers the most promising vision for liberal democracy
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations (PPCE, volume 12)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Future of Democracy in East Asia
- Political Liberalism
- Paradigm Shift of Political Philosophy
- Morality in Political Liberalism
- Respect for Persons
- Confucianism and Comprehensive Confucian Perfectionism
- Discontents of Moderate Political Confucianism
- Reasonable Pluralism in East Asia
- Confucianism and Multivariate Democracy
- Democracy Beyond East Asia
- Respect, Recognition, and Toleration
- Theory of Global Justice
- Liberal and democratic ideals
- Public conception of morality
- John Rawls
- East Asian societies
- Democracy in East Asia
- Classical Chinese philosophy
- Contemporary political theorists
- democracy
About this book
This book contributes to both the internal debate in liberalism and the application of political liberalism to the process of democratization in East Asia. Beyond John Rawls’ original intention to limit the scope of political liberalism to only existing and well-ordered liberal democracies, political liberalism has the potential to inspire and contribute to democratic establishment and maintenance in East Asia. Specifically, the book has two main objectives. First, it will demonstrate that political liberalism offers the most promising vision for liberal democracy, and it can be defended against contemporary perfectionist objections. Second, it will show that perfectionist approaches to political Confucianism suffer from practical and theoretical difficulties. Instead, an alternative model of democracy inspired by political liberalism will be explored in order to achieve a multivariate structure for citizens to come to terms with democracy in their own ways, to support a neutral state that ensures the establishment and stability of democracy, and to maintain an active public role for Confucianism to prevent it from being banished to the private sphere. This model represents a more promising future for democracy in East Asia.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Zhuoyao Li is assistant professor of philosophy at St. John’s University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College, where he studied social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, and philosophy of economics. His main research interests are contemporary debates between political liberalism and liberal perfectionism, the implications of political liberalism in non-liberal societies, as well as comparative philosophy and political theory. His works on these topics have appeared in the Review of Politics, Philosophy East and West, Ethics & Global Politics, among other publications. He also serves as the managing editor of Philosophy & Social Criticism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Liberalism, Confucianism, and the Future of Democracy in East Asia
Authors: Zhuoyao Li
Series Title: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43116-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43115-0Published: 18 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43118-1Published: 18 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43116-7Published: 17 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2352-8370
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 206
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Non-Western Philosophy, Comparative Politics, Democracy